Apr 29th 2025, 23:13:48
Originally posted by Slagpit:
The only players who say that are bad actors or those who have been groomed and radicalized by bad actors. Allow me to try to express your "censorship is bad" philosophy into something more concrete: "There aren't enough posts on AT due to fear of censorship. It would be good for the game if there were more posts on AT".
Let's consider three types of censorship on AT:
1) A post of a few sentences is deleted by a forum moderator
2) A player is given a 48 hour timeout by a forum moderator
3) An entire netting alliance is killed off by a war tag because a comment was made months prior that hurt an alliance leader's fee-fees. 20 or so players lost about 6 weeks of progress.
Which do you think is the most impactful form of censorship? What scares players the most? Scenario 3 is absolutely NOT a hypothetical by the way: https://www.earthempires.com/...e/88/clans/PDM?show-all=1
Let's consider three types of censorship on AT:
1) A post of a few sentences is deleted by a forum moderator
2) A player is given a 48 hour timeout by a forum moderator
3) An entire netting alliance is killed off by a war tag because a comment was made months prior that hurt an alliance leader's fee-fees. 20 or so players lost about 6 weeks of progress.
Which do you think is the most impactful form of censorship? What scares players the most? Scenario 3 is absolutely NOT a hypothetical by the way: https://www.earthempires.com/...e/88/clans/PDM?show-all=1
Honestly?
As pres of the alliance in question, there were a variety of factors in play to start that war. First, I had only just become head of the alliance, after serveral years out of the game, and many of the current leaders either a) didn't know who I was (understandable), or b, had forgotten my previous time as a leader back in the mid to late 2000's (again, also understandable).
Second, we had other leaders at the time who had been uhh, inconsistent at best in their behaviours, including having leeaked confidential information to a known suicider, which reflected on our alliance as a whole.
We have come to quite peaceable relations with that alliance since, as they have learned more about how I lead, including that I avoid playing games, and that I will call things as I see them.
Bluntly, we lost more players as a direct result of that former leader and player's actions in censoring and deleting people's posts within our alliance discord, and attempting to create a culture of player worship etc than we did because of that war. ( I lost maybe 4 poeple out of that war. We lost 10 or more because of the former player.
Edited By: Drow on Apr 29th 2025, 23:17:37
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